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Tracy Lee Stum sits in front of her 3D creation, inspired by the Oscar-winning film, Life of Pi. Image: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

The Oscar-winning epic Life of Pi was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 3D Blu-ray earlier this week. However, if you thought the special effects in the film were cool, you should really check them out in chalk art.

To commemorate the home entertainment release, chalk/street artist Tracy Lee Stum was commissioned to create an interactive 3D street drawing at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. It will be on display from now through Saturday, March 16, 2013.

Based on the novel of the same name, Ang Lee’s Life of Pi follows Patel (Suraj Sharma), a 16-year-old boy who survives a shipwreck with a variety of exotic animals — most notably a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. A key scene from this breathtaking tale of survival is what inspired Stum’s work.

“My 3D chalk art makes you feel like you’re part of the scene,” she says. “It makes you feel like you’re really there.”

Sadly, as Stum states, her artwork is not meant to last. If you can’t make it out to the display before this weekend, check out the time-lapse video and her completed work in the video below.

Browncoats rejoice! Toy Vault has made a deal this week with Twentieth Century Fox to produce new Firefly merchandise which will include table-top games, plushes and more.

As a fan of Firefly, aka a Browncoat, I’ve been excited to see anything new come from this show that has been off the air for a decade. I’ve collected the comics, hoped that the rumors of an MMO would come true and wished for more of Captain Mal and his crew. As a gamer, I’m looking forward most to see what kinds of games will be offered.

Toy Vault hopes to have the first items in their new Firefly line launch this spring. There aren’t a whole lot of details yet, but you can read more on Toy Vault’s Facebook page.

Any Fringe fans out there? I am anxiously awaiting the season premiere in a mere 24 days, but in the meantime I have found some paper dolls to occupy my time. Not only do they provide an Olivia Dunham doll but also outfits for her major transformations. There is an outfit for Fauxlivia and one for when she is “possessed” by William Bell among others. That William Bell one gave me the heebee jeebees though. She sounded like Leonard Nimoy.

Not to be left out, there is also a set for Peter, though that doll looks a tad more pumped than I remember him being. So while you are waiting on the Fringe season to start, you can re-enact your favorite scenes from the show. For those of you who have not heard of Fringe (gasp!), there is a great review here.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a enthralling tale of youth and peculiarity. Jacob has grown up listening to the “fairy stories” told to him by his paternal Grandfather. Dismissing them in his teen years, he is confronted with them again on the day his grandfather is killed by one of the monsters from the stories. Psychoanalysis and a journey to a small island off the coast of Wales take Jacob to places he could barely even begin to imagine. With a memorable cast of characters created from a collection of old photographs. Ransom Riggs has created a world unto itself in many ways. Some of the photographs were disturbing, others intriguing, mostly it was just interesting to know that the character came from a real photograph. It added an element of almost morbid realism to a fantastical story.

There were sections of this book that made me sleep with the light on, there were sections where I wanted to put the book in the freezer, but mostly I just couldn’t leave this book alone.

Elements of the story will seem familiar to any fan of time travel fiction or The X-Men, but there is enough ingenuity in story line, and such interesting character development, to make the familiar feel part of this story instead of the other way around. I had decided a while back, to give up on young adult fiction, but I’m glad I made an exception for this book. Yet like much YA fiction these days, this book ends with the promise of a conclusion, but no conclusion, and I found that frustrating.

I grew up daydreaming about discovering my grandfather was a spy, finding out I was really a mermaid or wishing to be an American heiress, so I really identified with Jacob when he finds out that he is something more than he seems. This book is for everyone who has grown up wishing that there was something hidden in their past that would spring out and make them un-ordinary. It is also for those with monsters hiding underneath their beds.

Of course the movie rights have already been purchased by Fox, and so we can expect a film version at some point. I like to read the book first, so I’ll be in line for the movie when it comes out. Hopefully with Sean Biggerstaff as Jacob, before he gets too old for the role.